Fred Mouland - A Country Gentleman. Hedgelaying, Wine Making and Farming. Iford Farm, Sussex. скачать в хорошем качестве

Fred Mouland - A Country Gentleman. Hedgelaying, Wine Making and Farming. Iford Farm, Sussex.

Frederick Charles Mouland was an English Countryman, born in 1909 that worked through nearly a century of farming methods and countryside evolution. The Mouland family has so far been traced back to the 1600's and has a long history of farming. Starting on his father's (Charles Mouland) farm in Chaldon Herring (Dorset) before they moved onto Barkfold farm in Kirdford, Fred later married and settled at Iford Farm nr Lewes, working for the Robinson family. Fred knew every craft going: Hedgelaying, dairyman/cowman, heavy horses and ''breaking-in'' colts, tractors and farm machinery, ploughing, sowing, ferreting and shooting, ornamental pheasants and poultry, making rabbit nets, thatching, gardening, working donkeys, clearing streams and brooks, wine making and more. During ww2, he helped to put German and Italian prisoners of war to work. Fred taught many people in the art of hedgelaying including his friend the honourable former Judge Michael Kennedy QC/KC, who was the highest ranking civil judge in Sussex. In his later years Fred established a TV career and was on various country related shows, newspapers and general news/TV: Country Ways, Taste of the South, Good Morning Television and others. All for his wine making, hedgelaying, gardening and general country-cunning - winning numerous hedgelaying awards/trophies, as well as having year after year of prize winning vegetables and winning local wine competitions. Fred involved generations of his family in the countryside and was a charming and interesting gentleman of whom would lend his hand to anything and be there to offer anyone a hand. He happily worked until the day of his peaceful passing, only a very short period before his 90th birthday and having competed in the Oxford Hedgelaying Competition only two months previous. This video is a tribute to his memory and displays the best of his TV appearances, shares photographs and details of his farming and family life and right at the very end, it has a touching written tribute by John Robinson (of the Robinson family, owners of Iford farm, East Sussex UK - Close to Lewes). This is a compilation/ tribute video that was professionally made in 1999 after his passing and VHS copies were handed to many who knew him. In his memory, the National Hedgelaying society named the South of England trophy/cup for Veterans best year of re-growth as the "Fred Mouland Memorial cup/ trophy". Free -use. Anyone is free to use this video. It is property of our family (we do not own the programmes he starred in or the music heard within the video however and we respectfully share it in Grandad Fred's memory) and for use for both education and knowledge of all generations. For family, for friends and for absolutely anyone interested in Fred as a person and/or the crafts that he took part in. He was my great grandfather. I have fond memories as a child of his cottage and the land, his donkeys and of him sat in his armchair smoking his pipe. After he passed away, everyone could pick an item from his home as a keepsake.. as a child I instantly chose a copy of the photo of him with the axe, that sat proudly on his wall. Me and my father picked fruits from his garden and made a fruit crumble that evening. His son (My Grandad) Ron Mouland (Ronald Frederick Mouland), carried on Fred's legacy, as Chairman of the South of England Hedgelaying society. Ron also met Prince Charles while laying a hedge at his Gloucestershire estate, Highgrove and on other occasions. He continued as part of the hedge laying community until his sad passing in 2014. I spent a lot of time with him and he taught me some hedgelaying, though sadly to-date the last hedge I laid was with him on a training day in 2010. I have a collection of Ron's VHS videos of his hedgelaying that I intend to convert to digital and upload in due course, provided their condition is good enough. I hope this is nice for family members to view but also friends, members of the hedgelaying community and anyone with general countryside interests.